Walnut Bud

Latin: Juglans regia

Botanical Family : Juglandaceae

Other names : Gland de Jubiter, noyer royal, gland divin, etc

Plant part: Bud

Origin: France

Jovis glans or Jupiter's glans is the Latin origin of Juglans, like a gift to men from the God of the Roman Gods. Walnut is believed to have a Persian origin; it would have crossed Greece and Italy to reach France.

The wild walnut is a solitary tree that reigns in the area; it can reach 20 to 30 m and live 300 years. It offers dense and particularly cool shade which indicates the presence of water. Light and heat are also essential for its development: its buds are late and the fall of its leaves particularly early.

Anne-Laure and Bruno Weiler “At the heart of oneself, at the heart of the trees” offer us an original approach to walnut. If it offers the observer a harmonious whole, it is a general balance of forms built on a very tortuous whole: trunk not completely rectilinear, branches which change direction suddenly, absence of symmetry, as if the tree was looking for the best way to grow. General harmony would therefore be to be found in this flexibility and this capacity for adaptation – “All paths are possible, but it is necessary to choose one at each new stage of existence”. 

Pitera recommends walnut macerate in periods of mental confusion, and “loss of ability to decide in the event of changes”. Let us therefore take advantage of walnut to also “listen to the movement of life” and decide on the direction to take.